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Exploring Nature and Rights: Personal Reflections from a Mini-Festival of Ideas

On Thursday, 20th February, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) helped to convene and participate in an engaging afternoon and evening of…

Delivering Effective Management for Invasive Alien Species with a Knowledge Sharing Platform

Invasive alien species disrupt ecosystems and contribute to species extinctions. While evidence-based management strategies are critical in addressing this growing…

Nature positive: a game changer for economies and societies, but only if we get it right

CCI sits on Union Bancaire Privée’s (UBP) Biodiversity Committee and the voice of its member organisations is integral to the Committee’s…

Planting the seeds of change: A community effort to restore the Solent’s seagrass

As part of the Solent Seascape Project (delivered by CCI’s Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme) the Hampshire & Isle of Wight…

New Government, new opportunities to secure restoration of nature

Cambridge Conservation Initiative stands ready to assist the new Government with advice and evidence to inform the nature restoration and…

Climbing mountains and breaking down doors

Six months into my Turner Fellowship and the shape of the mountain range I am trying to climb is becoming…

CCI Knowledge-Exchange Student Esme Ashe-Jepson shares how a unique collaboration helped her create impact for nature that can be seen from space

My studentship has recently come to an end, I handed in my final corrected thesis a few weeks ago. It…

Singing the sounds of nature, connection and memory in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains

The arts and cultural practice provide a compelling route into understanding how people are connected to landscapes. The Endangered Landscapes…

Notes From The Field – Knowledge Exchange Student Joycelyn Longdon arrives in Ghana

2022 CCI Knowledge Exchange Student Joycelyn Longdon recently arrived in Ghana in preparation for her field studies there. She will…

The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature

A great new study came out in Nature Sustainability this week, based on one of CCI’s most enduring relationships –…

Citizen Science for Conservation: February 2021 blog entry

The following blog is written by Rosie Trevelyan, Director, Tropical Biology Association (project lead for the CCI Collaborative Fund project…

Deciding to harm nature – an opinion piece by Buglife, CCF member

This opinion piece is written Andrew Whitehouse and Matt Shardlow of Buglife, based on a longer piece published by Buglife.…